Bones in a Curio – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
People have a special relationship with remains. It figures, mainly because we’re all remains. I’m what remains of 49 years of living. Someday my, and your and their bodies will become remains. So when we see actual remains, we give pause.
Remains are powerful in the imagination, and also in some witchcraft and voodoo. Also in organ trafficking. So if you have remains, what better place to sell them than an online curio shop?
It’s called Wicked Wonderland, the curio shop. And they had remains for sale. We’re talking a mix here. Not a full skeleton or anything. No farm fresh spleens. A piece of clavicle, a bit of skull, some unidentified tissue. And that’s great, but you can’t do that in Florida, so they got in trouble.
This got me thinking. I read a lot of science stuff, and what they’re doing in medicine, soon they’ll be able to 3D print up a body for spae parts. Will those remains mean anything, or will they grind up our spare bones for gourmet gelatin.
It’s just amazing what you can get online. They always talk about the dark web, like that’s where you can get the good, rather, bad stuff. But if you can get human remains at “Wicked Wonderland” you can probably get all kinds of terrible stuff on the mom-and-pop internet. I know this isn’t internet, but you can get soiled schoolgirl panties in vending machines in Japan. So I’m sure there’s someone that buys those and sells them on the internet.
If I had all kinds of money, and by that, I mean any money, I’d go on a scavenger hunt to find the objectively worst thing I could find on an ordinary website. SoI guess I leave that challenge to you. Do your best for the very worst.